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1. "I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go." ~ David Antin

2. "I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty." ~ David Antin

3. "Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying." ~ David Antin

4. "The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin." ~ David Antin

5. "Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real." ~ David Antin

6. "It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel." ~ David Antin

7. "My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer." ~ David Antin

8. "When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience." ~ David Antin

9. "A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars." ~ David Antin

10. "For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting." ~ David Antin

11. "From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us." ~ David Antin

12. "I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate." ~ David Antin

13. "I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James." ~ David Antin

14. "I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do." ~ David Antin

15. "I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore." ~ David Antin

16. "I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember." ~ David Antin

17. "I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out." ~ David Antin

18. "I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred." ~ David Antin

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